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Welles, Orson (1915-1985)
Considered by many to be the most influential and innovative filmmaker of the twentieth century, Orson Welles made movies that were ambitious, original, and epic. This alone ...
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Welles, Orson (1915-1985)
When Orson Welles's name is mentioned, the first thing that comes to mind is Citizen Kane (1941), which is still considered to be one of the best films in the history ...
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Orson Welles (1915-1985) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor, radio actor, and film director. His earliest film production, Citizen Kane, was his most famous, although most of his other productions we...
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Considered an artistic genius, Orson Welles was involved in productions for radio, theatre, film, and television in a career spanning more than forty years. He was found to be exceptional as a child--...
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Critical Essay by Robert Hatch
The most disconcerting thing about Orson Welles's screen version of The Trial is that in retrospect it doesn't seem to matter. At the moment, it is enterta...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
Well disposed as I am toward the Orson Welles Macbeth and Othello, I feel bound to call his Chimes at Midnight the most mature of his Shakespearean excursions, and to hope...
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Critical Essay by William Johnson
Judged by first—even second or third—impressions, Welles's films are a triumph of show over substance. His most memorable images seem like elepha...
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Critical Essay by Charles Higham
[Welles's] personality as an artist is on the scale of a Hugo, a Balzac: he is expansive, grand, capricious, sometimes gross in his style; maddeningly prone to ...
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Critical Essay by Charles Silver
It's not very hard to find things wrong with The Immortal Story…. The sound, at least in the English-language version is rather bad. The lighting, sets, ...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Mcbride
Welles' film audience is missing a revealing experience in not being able to see [his made-for-television film] The Fountain of Youth. Its mixture of bold theat...
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Critical Essay by William S. Pechter
[Though] I expected The Trial to be bad, I went to it truly hoping for the best. And, in fact, though I expected it to be bad, bad as a mannerist painting can be b...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Mcbride
It is clear that Welles's films are not moralistic in the sense that Howard Hawks's are, for example—as fables of exemplary behaviour; and just as...
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Critical Essay by Penelope Houston
Orson Welles casts such a gigantic shadow that it becomes difficult to realise that in fact only six films (five if one chooses to discount the equivocal Journey int...
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Welles, Orson (1915-1985)
Welles, Orson (1915-1985)
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
Critical Essay by Robert Hatch
